Rare computer literature for sale

On the 28th of October The Weinreb Computer Collection will be auctioned off by Bloomsbury Book Auctions. The collection contains over 2000 books, pamphlets, patents, manuals, and articles that document the origins and development of Computer Science from the early recording and analysis of statistics to the coming of the electronic digital computer. The auction will be held in London.

If you can't make the auction you can go to the Computer Archive website to browse the collection or do pre-sale bidding.

JOEL'S OPINION
If you've got some money to spend, this would be a nice collection to have. I tried to get to the Computer Archive website today to look at the pieces being auctioned. Unfortunately , it timed out.

I wonder who's going to buy these items? What they should really do is donate them to a museum, but that will never happen, unfortunately.

I wonder what kind of patents there are in this collection? I've seen some strange ones in my time and I'm sure that there are definitely some bizarro ones sitting in this collection.

I'm surprised that the company doing this auction of computer stuff isn't going to broadcast the auction on the 'Net. At the very least it should allow people to e-mail in their bids or something.